CountrySelect

Provides a helper to render an HTML select tag containing a list of countries.

Installation

$ rails plugin install http://github.com/christianhellsten/country_select.git

Importing countries in to your database

To import countries in to your database, run the following rake task:

$ rake countries:import

Available rake tasks:

$ rake -T|grep countries                                                   
rake countries:create              # Create countries table
rake countries:drop                # Drop countries table
rake countries:import              # Import all countries
rake countries:setup               # Create table and import all countries

Select helper example

To output a drop-down menu of all countries, with Australia and New Zealand at the top:

country_select(:user, :country_id, ["AU", "NZ"], :prompt => true, :value => user.country)

or

form_for(@person) do |f|
  f.country_select(:country_id, ["AU", "NZ"], :prompt => true, :value => @person.country)

Credits

* Original code by Michael Koziarski, Jim Benton.
* This fork is based on Arthur Gunn's "country_select plugin":http://github.com/gunn/country_select.
* Rake task by "fnando":http://github.com/fnando/country_select/
* Rails 3 compatibility update and support for countries stored in a database by Christian Hellsten.

Released under the MIT license